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The knowledge of intracranial pressure (ICP) is a matter of predominant interest in patients with severe head injury. An outstanding improvement in the diagnosis of posttraumatic mass lesions was the introduction of CAT-scanning (4–6, 8, 9). This new method gives a picture of morphological changes intracranially, hence of compartmental volume changes. Thus, brain edema can be diagnosed (7): a typical consequence of tissue-mass increase in narrowing of the ventricular system. This morphological observation can lead to plausible but unproven conclusions on “increased ICP’ when CAT-scan shows brain swelling and narrowing of the ventricular system.
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Auer, L., Oberbauer, R., Tritthart, H., Sager, W.D., Clarici, G. (1980). Relevance of Cat-Scan for the Level of ICP in Patients with Severe Head Injury. In: Shulman, K., Marmarou, A., Miller, J.D., Becker, D.P., Hochwald, G.M., Brock, M. (eds) Intracranial Pressure IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67543-0_10
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